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From: petersen@ucbvax.ARPA (David A. Petersen)
Newsgroups: net.cycle
Subject: 55mph
Message-ID: <7356@ucbvax.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 21-May-85 16:28:42 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 21 16:28:42 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 22-May-85 07:38:26 EDT
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Reply-To: petersen@ucbvax.UUCP (Paul Bradley)
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Lines: 32
Keywords: Tickets, Speeding, 55mph
Summary: Who needs it?

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   Have you ever gotten an interstate speeding ticket?
Did you feel justice was served and that you deserved to be
separated from $85 and maybe classified as a negligent driver?

   Everyone who reads net.auto knows interstates were designed to
accomodate 70mph travel and some places had a limit of 75mph.
We also know that the regulation of highway travel was always the
domain of the state government until 1975.  Then came the 55mph limit.
The constitution was not changed giving the feds the right to regulate
our roads; they just discovered blackmail.  He who has the gold makes
the rules.  The money a state pays in income tax does not go back to the
state unless they pass the laws the feds want.  I say the feds have
exceeded their authority; this trick could be used to make states
do almost anything.  We need to let them know how we feel.

   If you have ever voted because you thought it made a difference,
do something with 100 times the effect; write your congressman
and senators  c/o   U. S. House of Representatives  or U. S. Senate,
Washington, D. C.

DO IT NOW. Our representatives in Washington do tally up the number
of letters they receive from constituents attacking and supporting
the laws they vote on.  Consider how few people write and therefore
how much your letter will mean.  There are a lot of insurance companies
and airlines who like things juat the way they are.

                                         Paul Bradley


55mph, It's a law we can live without.